David Axelrod

The State Department released some 3,000 pages of Hillary Rodham Clinton's email correspondence Tuesday, but the documents hardly provide her critics the revealing look inside her tenure that they were seeking. The emails, the first batch from a pool of more than 50,000 pages turned over by the candidate from her private email server, suggest Clinton mostly avoided email. Her use of it tended to involve mundane scheduling matters and keeping close track of what the media were saying about her. The latest messages go beyond the initial 850 pages of emails released in May that were tied to the 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, the subject of a...

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The State Department released some 3,000 pages of Hillary Rodham Clinton's email correspondence Tuesday, but the documents hardly provide her critics the revealing look inside her tenure that they were seeking.
The emails, the first batch from a...

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As President Obama's political consultant, David Axelrod was guarded and disciplined when he appeared on the weekend talk shows. He stayed on message, with little hint of humor or personality. But the Axelrod we meet in his autobiography,...

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Twelve months before the voting is set to begin, the 2016 presidential race is shaping up as a fiercely competitive contest driven by two overriding forces that — candidates aside — will go a long way toward deciding the next occupant of the White House....

I'm going out on a limb here, but Bernie Sanders is not going to be our next president. Still, the independent socialist senator from Vermont is sounding more and more like a man who intends to defy the doubters and run. And he could play an important...

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If you live in one of the 11 states with a close race for the U.S. Senate, you already know this. Your...

The wall-builders are winning.
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry, facing felony charges that he abused his power, stayed on the offensive Sunday, saying he did the right thing by cutting off money for the state’s anti-corruption watchdog.
“I stood up for the rule of law in the state of Texas,”...

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New Jersey Gov. Chris...

LONDON – Setting up an intriguing election battle, Britain’s opposition Labor Party announced Friday that it had hired President Obama’s chief campaign advisor to help the party return to power next year over the ruling Conservatives.
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Piers Morgan out, Ronan Farrow in.
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FORT LEE, N.J. — With a daylong public apology for political retribution he blamed on his staff, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie tried mightily Thursday to keep a local traffic issue from blossoming into a full-blown threat to his 2016 presidential...

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David Axelrod, former senior advisor to President Obama, is joining the list of one-time Obama administration officials who will be penning memoirs next year, Penguin Press has announced.
Other Obama administration officials with books on the way...